August 6, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), one of seven signatories to a letter sent yesterday to Janet Napolitano, Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security...
Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles v. Reagan is a case which sought to use the U.S. legal system to enjoin the United States from deploying first-use nuclear missiles in Great Britain. The threat...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Following Iraq's August 2, 1990 invasion of Kuwait, then-President George H. W. Bush began deploying U.S. military forces to the Persian Gulf. On November 8, 1990, while significantly increasing...
Updated: April 28, 2023
Tawfic Abdel Jabbar was a 17-year-old American citizen born and raised in Gretna, Louisiana. His family moved to the United States nearly 30 years ago, where his father and uncle opened a Louisiana...
Updated: August 22, 2025
Survivors and human rights advocates are in Geneva for the January 16th Committee on the Rights of the Child review of the Holy See’s treaty compliance. Please join the Survivors Network of...
Updated: January 14, 2014
September 29, 2017The detention of an unnamed U.S. citizen held by the military as an enemy combatant is increasingly a legal and human-rights emergency, national security lawyers and civil libertarian activists say—...
The case against the LA 8 began in January 1987, when the government arrested two immigrants and six others who became known as the LA 8. The government placed them in a maximum security prison, and...
Updated: November 28, 2007
January 14, 2021...Below are some actionable steps we can take to advance immigrant rights and push back against unjust policies: 1. In order to save ourselves from repeating past mistakes or accepting the current...
Case emerges from broader struggle of Gullah Geechee community to protect land and heritage
April 16, 2018CCR and Muslim Advocates have entered into a settlement agreement with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) , ending litigation over the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans in...
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